Animalia > Chordata > Amphibia > Caudata > Plethodontidae > Oedipina > Oedipina carablancaOedipina carablanca (Los Diamantes Worm Salamander)Oedipina carablanca (common name: Los Diamantes worm salamander) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae.It is endemic to Costa Rica and only know from its type locality, Los Diamantes, near Guápiles, Limón Province. Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests, plantations, rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forest.It is threatened by habitat loss. |
Adult Length [1] | 5 inches (12.8 cm) | Litters / Year [1] | 1 |
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Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
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Climate |
Land Use |
Isthmian-Atlantic moist forests |
Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Mesoamerica |
Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama |
Yes |
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Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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